The United States will contribute $100 million toward repairs to the protective structure over the damaged reactor at the ...

A school was the first place to accurately monitor radiation reaching the UK after the disaster, a former teacher says.

Four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, experts say growing energy needs and advancing technology are bringing renewed ...

Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear ...

The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart.

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl continues to haunt Ukraine, heightened by attacks hitting the country's nuclear plants.

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable ...

The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...